jackzilla retweeted
nithya raman's colleagues on the city council don't like her because she has correctly counseled them to not oppose housing developments that will win in court anyway
#LosAngelesMayor
Politico: Nithya Raman is facing “a full-on, multiple-person verbal assault” from her City Council colleagues, not one of whom has endorsed her.
If Raman wins, her ambitious agenda may depend on her ability to persuade a council majority to go along.
politico.com/news/2026/10/20…
jackzilla retweeted
Abundance usually gets explained as a list of problems: zoning, permits, licensing, slow approvals.
Here’s what we'd actually get if we fixed them:
Lunch costs $4, like it does in Japan and Singapore. Most US cities require three or four separate sinks, which makes a kitchen under 200 square feet nearly impossible.
Anyone can open an owl cafe or a vegan lesbian bookstore. Japan is full of tiny, oddly specific businesses run by one or two people. They survive because small spaces are cheap and enough people live close enough to walk in.
A room in a big city for $400 a month. These buildings housed millions of low-income and older Americans until cities banned most of them by the 1980s.
A three-bedroom apartment you can stay in after you have a kid. US codes require two staircases in buildings over three stories, so family-sized units only fit on the corners. Most of the world allows one staircase.
A new electric car for about $10,000. China sells these globally. Americans can't buy it.
A government so dependable it's boring. When a loved one dies, you report it once instead of to every agency.
We can decide to make it happen here.
The full list has 16 things, from taco trucks on every corner to no more pandemics. I wrote this to also announce that today is DC Abundance's official launch!
If you’re in DC, come celebrate and see the G.O.A.T. Derek Thompson speak!
jackzilla retweeted
Man I’m genuinely so proud of what we’ve accomplished with Lucky 7s
I wrote this loose project plan for the project in late 2023.
We’ve always believed that the community needed a central, trusted group that can execute in all areas: Events, technology, player sponsorships, and soon: content. A group that is independent, grassroots, and passionate about re-investing its success back into the scene.
The economics change when you have a group who truly enjoys this work and has no investors to answer to. The community does have money they want to spend, and when we learn there’s a group who can be trusted to multiply that value back into the scene, I do think we can become the first long term sustainable Melee org with S tier execution in all categories that can exist as a strong backbone for the scene for the good times and bad.
Thank you to everybody who’s trusted us and supported us, I don’t take the responsibility lightly. The community has been burnt so many times.
From early day discussions with @0degreewaveland and us chatting in 2022 about feeling we could do it, but thinking the barriers were too tall to climb and then @plushVG joining the team before we even really got started.
To @spotdodge_shine and @ossify37 letting us kick off the org by sending them to Genesis X and @Freezus304 being our first full time sponsored player.
To all of the Steven’s Melee supporting our grand efforts and participating in Breakfast’s early rendition Full House tournaments and @nycmelee for being such a supporting and innovative scene.
To the players from Full House 2025 who trusted a bunch no names to invite them to a mansion and host and intimate wildly ambitious invitational for a weekend @iBDWSSBM @moky_dokie @LiquidHbox @TempoAxe @ZainNaghmi @C9Mang0 @LilTrickshot @n0ned @TrifSmash @SaltSSB @s00nsay @jakedirado @arJunebug @AuraSSBM @KrudoKyle and especially @NotAklo and @DarkGenex for believing in us from the start and putting their neck on the line vouching for our legitimacy. And of course, to @g0shine @ssbm_Horde @findthatyeti_ @beta @josh_fti for being so so essential to making the event happen.
To all the fresh faces and VIPs and commentators @ViciousVish @epengu @jackzilla (and so many more)
And to the latest era of signing @s00nsay @Rap1238727 @kurothearbiter and our Lucky Stats users, subscribers, and all the devs who came before to build the foundations that make it all possible @Fizzi36 @UnclePunch_ @rwing_aitch @jmlee337 @startgg @iphone194629174
All these tags are engagement bait as fuck but I truly appreciate all the collaboration over the years. Thank you.
We have so much more planned and excited to continue this journey with yall. Long live Lucky 7s :)
jackzilla retweeted
As if to confirm city unions' complaints about City unable to do work due to unfair pay & lack of contract, Unger asked why City can't do this in house. Response: "Right now, construction management team that's managing large streetscape projects currently has 80% vacancy rate"
jackzilla retweeted
it's not hard to imagine a San Francisco with 25% lower rent and twice as many people, shops, and buses! you can barely spot the difference
jackzilla retweeted
We can and we must build more homes for all of us.
ALT We can build more homes to lower costs for all of us.
ALT DC has a housing crisis. This is a big problem that demands an ambitious solution. Right now, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rewrite the Comprehensive Plan to ensure that we can build more homes in more neighborhoods.
ALT We will work to stabilize DC's housing market, preserve the affordable housing we already have, and address rent nonpayment while protecting tenants. We must because DC is facing real economic challenges. But we need to create the foundation for ambitious growth. Here’s how →
ALT Legalize high-density, mixed-use buildings near Metrorail and bus stops and on publicly-owned land. Legalize small apartment buildings citywide so Washingtonians have more choices and more opportunities in more neighborhoods. End parking requirements citywide, and encourage minimal parking be built in developments near Metro stations.
jackzilla retweeted
a bit giddy today: my feature script PARTICIPATION AWARD has been selected as one of three finalists out of thousands of submissions to the slamdance feature screenwriting competition
AND both my friends are up there with me :’)
next stop: la later this month for the awards
jackzilla retweeted
LA is HOT. But does it have to be this hot?
Did you know shade from a single tree can drop temps by 20° or more? Yet working-class neighborhoods like South LA, East LA, and the Valley get the least tree coverage and bear the brunt of extreme heat. Let's change that and finally cool things down for everyone.
jackzilla retweeted
noticing my arena opponents doing a lot of "empowering jace" and "boosting noncombat damage" but not a lot of empowering women or boosting marginalized voices
jackzilla retweeted
Will never stop talking about this. It's not even Marx and Engels, it's until before WW1. Stefan Zwieg:
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If you are a staffer you have a moral obligation to brief your boss on this meme before they make you write a bill like this
JUST IN: First-time homebuyers could get as much as $50,000 for a down payment on a house, under a draft bill to be introduced by Senator Jeff Merkley and cosponsored by Senator Ron Wyden, per Axios
jackzilla retweeted
Subathon is live!
Tons of fun games coming up.
The final goal for this Subathon will be a Melee teams stream with Android
Would be first time in almost 7 years I would play any Melee on stream (Maybe played 70-100h or so period in the past 3 years LOL)
twitch.tv/ArmadaUGS
